Roland Bauer

Roland Bauer (19 March 1928 – 2017) was a German politician and history academic in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany).

He was vice-president of the East German Historical Society, a member of the central committee of the country's ruling SED (party) and of the Berlin city council.

A switch towards the national political mainstream came with his candidature for the central committee of the ruling SED (party), which lasted from 1967. He was elected to membership following the conventional waiting period at the 8th Party Congress in 1971. From 1971 till 1978 he was a member of the Party Central Committee's Culture Commission and he was also, from 1971 till 1981 a member of the Berlin City Council. In 1976 he was involved in the exclusion from East German citizenship of Wolf Biermann.

In 1978 Bauer succeeded Rudolf Wettengel as the East German Party's Central Committee representative on the editorial board of the politically important Prague based journal Problems of Peace and Socialism (World Marxist Review / Проблемы мира и социализма), remaining on the board till August 1990 representing the SED and then its successor party, the German Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS / Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus) through most of the period of the German reunification process.

Publications Die II. Internationale (1889–1914). Berlin 1956, DNB 450262847. Der wissenschaftliche Sozialismus und das Godesberger Grundsatzprogramm. Berlin 1960, DNB 450262863. Kriegspolitik und Friedenskampf. Berlin 1963, DNB 450262855. Roland Bauer et al.: Berlin – 800 Jahre Geschichte in Wort und Bild. Dietz, Berlin 1980, DNB 810456710. Roland Bauer et al.: Berlin – Illustrierte Chronik bis 1870. Dietz, Berlin 1987, , DNB 551475684.